The Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the most iconic predators in Earth's history, hides distant origins spanning Asia and North ...

Halophilic archaea thrive in hypersaline environments, making them a unique model for understanding microbial diversity and ...

A chromosome glitch in beetleweed reveals how genome doubling can drive rapid plant evolution and create new species in real ...

This valuable work formulates an individual-based model to understand the evolution of division of labor in vertebrates, in particular, to examine the role of indirect versus direct fitness benefits.

When Attenborough’s broadcasting career began in the 1950s, Austrian filmmakers Hans and Lotte Hass were already pushing the ...

A wild ginger has a clever trick up its sleeve to lure in pollinators. No, it's not a sweet fragrance that fills the air, but ...

The biodiversity of Earth's oceans is disproportionately concentrated in coral reefs—the vibrant undersea ecosystems where ...

Researchers have shed new light on how the environment promotes the generation of new species. A study led by Dr. Benjamin ...

Researchers have combined decades of scientific data, tracing how all birds are related. This provides an evolutionary map ...

Since the evolutionary split ... Despite the substantial difference in ecological niches, humans and gorillas share many traits, such as opposable thumbs, facial expressions, complex social ...

Methods range from physical examination of specimens to a variety of genetic analyses. We work to better understand parasites and parasitism, and to use them to enhance general ecological, ...

Professor Edmund Jarzembowski, an associate scientist at the Natural History Museum and co-author of the study, says, “It was a totally unexpected find and amazingly fitted a gap in the evolutionary ...